The Straits Budget, 7 October 1954

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  • 32 1 The Straits Budget New Series No. 424. £3 MALAYA’S NATIONAL NEWSPAPSR Thursday, October*?, *1954 Z*Zm«yf* J*- THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES Price 40 cents (Malayan) Or 1 Shilling. v J.
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    • 150 2  -  E. K. TAN. Singapore. i'; j y>. ALL In -Ittngapore who have the Interest of the Colony at heart will welcome the Government’s intention to reorientate its policy towards Chinese schools—to give more financial aid and encouragement for their growth. Singapore’s educational policy underwent t*o
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    • 90 2  -  R. V. N. NAYUDU. Singapore. rFHE advice of "Tax-payer” I that Indian doctors be packed off to India on the next boat after the completion of their three-year contract is lamentable. Does “Tax-payer” realise that about ninety per cent of the rural population of Malaya
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    • 48 2  -  YES, NO, TUAN. Singapore. ARE the Malayan Railway authorities aware of the difficulty that a night traveller encounters in acquiring a bedvT 5 Those who do not tip the attendants are soon shifted from lower to upper bunks. Are these attendants responsible for allocating beds?
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    • 188 2  -  PHI THETA. Singapore. ¥>ROFESSOR Silcock’s book on “The Economy of Malaya” reminds me of the chaotic days in early 1942 when we were prisoners in the Changi district. £3 Mr T. H. Silcock, as he was then, gave numerous lectures in the fj camp on
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    • 239 2  -  SHIFT ENGINEER Singapore. local lads chance in mining/’ says “Andy.” Local youths in Singapore and the Federation have every chance to become shift engineers and dredge masters. All that is required is a willingness to serve an apprenticeship fo*; five years as a fitter
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    • 108 2  -  A MALAYAN. 'THANKS to Mr. Holiowny for explaining the way in which wives of service personnel and imperial civil servants avoid income tax H I get It right; the husband Is already paying t/K Incometax and obviously nas beer granted a tax allowance for his wife
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    • 50 2  -  DAVID MARSHALL Singapore. \TOUR report of an interi view in respect of decontrol of business premises omits one aspect of my statement to your reporter. In my view the small trader will always have to be Krotected, and probably all uslness premises up to $100 should remain controlled.
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    • 128 2  -  SERVICE WIFE REPLIES TAX DODGER? Singapore. I AM one of the service wives who earns so called pin money’ which to us is essential. My husband’s yearly taxable pay is $8,400 on which he pays $744 tax. This would be even greater if we did not have
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    • 149 2  -  TAN BEAT CHYE Kuala Lumpur VOUR headline on tl,. 01 im duties: “Up goes the c. most things unpeople use most da is most appropriate. is always the v. earner and the S1 matt who has to pay an h e humiliation not belnt able
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    • 94 2  -  Fi t i*oi.unis, artment of Medicine, W i.M ...lty of Malay*. Sim f WISH to correct a mls1 statement that appears on page 7 of the Straits 'Times of Oct. 5. Mv research on the Murut tribe is stated to be sponsor- ed bv the University of Malaya,
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    • 393 2  -  (8gd) B M. TEMPLER London. i s a menace of which we are all fully conscious: and the very generous support given to the appeal for funds to build the Lady Templer Research and Treatment Hospital shows that the Board of Govetnors have
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous

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    • 978 3 —Straits Times, JSept. 30. The battle to liberate rice from Government control has been long and arduous. It has been nearly won. The report of to Federation Rice and Sugar Decontrol Working Party rec immends the free importation i rice from the beginning of the year, the
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    • 335 3 —Straits Times, Sept. 30. The Singapore City Council’s plan to build a new swimming pool at Farrer Park will be received with general satisfaction. There are only two public pools at present, at Mount Emily and Yan Kit Road. More ought to be built to meet the
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    • 1069 3 —Straits Times, Oct. 1. The Mudie Mission’s “face the facts” report on the rubber industry is impressive, rather dogmatic and justifiably alarmist. It is certainly the most remarkable analysis of the industry made in the last twenty years, and it can be disregarded only to Malaya’s
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    • 256 3 —Straits Times. Oct. 1. It has become the fashion in Malaya to decry nomination to the legislatures; “yos-men” is an unhappy label which has stuck in minds more responsive to slogans than to facts. The record of Sir John Bagnall, who died in Johannesburg yesterday, is a
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    • 784 4 —Straits Times, Oct. 2. It is an old Malayan complaint that a control imposed in the public interest usually fails because the public will not insist that it is enforced. The point is made again in a Federation report on rent control published for the Legislative Council’s
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    • 324 4 —Straits Times. Oct. 2. The general public of Singapore will not be happy over the news that neither the Government nor the City Council will take over the Singapore Traction Company when its franchise expires next June. The City Council’s refusal is understandable. Its heavy commitments
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    • 896 4 —Straits Times. Oct 4. The Malayanisation of the Government service is a subject which has lent itself admirably to emotion unrestrained by fact. The report of the Federation Government committee which has investi- j gated the progress made and expected, now supplies the facts. But the
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    • 328 4 —Strait® Times, Oct. 6. The Progressive Party’s statement on housing suggests that this difficult problem will bo one of the liveliest issues in the first elections under the new constitution. The Progressives have called for a Government housing authority under a Minister of Housing w-hich will take over
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  • 1177 5  -  Although the East Coast States do not figure very much in the Emergency news, they have also their problems resulting from Communist activities. Regrouping of Malay villages has been carried out. This article is about one such village. By Harry Miller
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  • 83 5 SINGAPORE, Oct. 6. SINGAPORE and the Federation need more doctors and specialists, and fears of over-specialisation are groundless, Dr. C. Subrahmanyam, president of the Singapore Local Senior Officer’s Association, told the Straits Times yesterday. He disagreed with Dr. Lee Tiang Keng, Member
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  • 33 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Oct. 5.—A mess for housemen at the General Hospital here is being constructed at a cost of $99,000. The site is within the hospital grounds, facing the sea.
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  • Personal
    • 124 5 HINE: To Rosamunde and Peter on 29.9.54 at Bungsar Kuala Lumpur. Baby Boy, Anthony Alan. GULLICK: On 30th September, to Pamela (nee Whitley), wife of J. M. Gullick, a son. TO KAY. Wife of Ong Kim Boon. Singapore Police Force, on 30 9.54, a Brother for Moira, both well.
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    • 83 5 THE ENGAGEMENT is announced between John Launcelot, only son of the late Captain L. Cranmer-Byng, J.P., C.A. and of Mrs. D. E. Cranmer Byng of Great Easton, Essex, and Margaret Ellen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.. R. H. Hardy of 23 Knole Way. Sevenoaks. Kent EDWIN STANCY. The eldest
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    • 42 5 WILLIAMS PHILLIPS: On October Ist. 1954 in London Brian, son of the late S. G. Williams. M. Inst. C. E. of London Singapore and of Mrs. Mildred Williams to Sylvia youngest daughter of Mr. Mrs. P. Phillips of Stamford Hill, London.
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  • 287 5 THE Acting Australian Minister for External Affairs, Senator J. A. Spicer, said yesterday that the Commonwealth Government had decided to allocate from funds budgeted for Australian expenditure on technical aid under the Colombo Plan a sum of £50,000 (M 5350,000) towards the building of International House
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  • 148 5 DEATHS GORDON On 28th September, 1954, at Lochhcarron, Scotland, after a short illness, John Gordon of Tronoh Mines, in his 81st year. PARBURY: At the General Hospital, Singapore, on 28th September, 1954, George Parbury, 78 years. A Funeral Service will be held at 6 p.m. Today, 30th September, at the
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  • 566 6  -  CYNICUS SINGAPORE. Oct. 2. IT HAS been fairly generally recognised that rent control in the Federation broke down long ago. Partly it was because of loopholes in the ordinance, and partly because of the tenants’ ignorance or unwillingness to go to the rent boards. The report
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  • 1048 6  -  STANLEY STREET. The route to Cathay SIR ROLAND BRADDELL, an authority qualified by his long family tradition with Malaya as well as by his individual standing as an expert in Malaysian history, writes in support of the theory that the traditional route to and from
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  • 87 8 SINGAPORE. Sept. 30. FOUR R.A.F. Vampire jets of 60 Squadron dipped in salute over Fairy Point Mess. Changi yesterday where a reception was being held for Squadron Leader T. Roper. Deputy Principal Medical Officer (Flying). Headquarters Far East Air Force, and his bride, formerly
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  • 296 8 SINGAPORE. Sept. 30. THE Chairman of the Singapore Central Provident Fund Board, Mr. R. C. Kendall, said yesterday that it is hoped to bring between 200,000 and 250,000 Singapore employees into the Government’s compulsory Provident Fund. He disclosed that before the board begins collecting compulsory
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  • 189 8 SINGAPORE, Sept. 30. 1 TI/fR. J. N. EASTERN and Mr. I*l S. E. T. Cusdin, of Eastern and Roberts, British consulting architects, will arrive in Singapore on Oct. 9 to advise the University of Malaya on building development in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. They will
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  • 211 8 SINGAPORE. Sept. 30. THE prospect of large profits is tempting Singapore “blue” film operators to stay in business despite the increasing risks following intensified police action. Three hundred feet of film enough for a 20-minute performance costs $200 in Bangkok. An operator can
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  • 30 8 More than 14,600 people In Singapore have applied for registration as citizens of the United Kingdom and the Colonies. Closing date for registration was Sept. 30.
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  • 52 8 SINGAPORE, Sept. 30. The Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce decided yesterday to protest against the Registration of Schools (Amendment) Bill which seeks to provide stricter control over schools in the Colony. The Chamber appointed a seven-man committee which will meet today to draft a protest memorandum to
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  • 31 8 SINGAPORE, Sept. 30. Mr. John Jacob has resigned as general secretary of the Malayan Indian Congress i Singapore) and Mr. P. V. Krishnan has been elected in his place.
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  • 296 8 SINGAPORE, Sept. 3o 4 SINGAPORE fireman who stood at his nost A top of a 100-foot turntable ladder f or mo« i. he half-an-hour although burnt in the hands and .'V has been awarded the Queen’s Commend it m, v Brave
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  • 61 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Sept. 29. MAJEDEE detention camp and the interrogation centre attached to it are to be closed next month. The 1.100 detainees will be sent to Ipoh detention camp. The camp is a Federal institution and it has not > been decided what to
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  • 221 8 SINGAPORE, Sept. 30. MOT even in America, where women are much more emancipated than in Malaya, have women succeeded in saining membership of Rotary Clubs the Singapore Rotary president, Dr. A Thevathasan, declared yesterday. •'Men feel a need to get together at times
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  • 2130 10 SINGAPORE, Oct. 1. AN accelerated three-year programme of replanting, aided by tax relief for the rubber industry, is recommended by the Mudie Mission whose report is published this morning. Only “vigorous and united action now’ can save the industry, the report says. “This is
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  • 1059 11 Wanted: A new land use policy to let the smallholder get on with the job of replanting THE urgent need for a new Federal land use policy is stressed by the Mudie fact-finding mission. In its report the mission says there is a severe land
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  • 139 11 LONDON REACTION Reuter. LONDON, Oct. 1. SIR JOHN HAY, chairman of the Rubber Growers’ Association, yesterday criticised the Mudie report, which declared that il an adequate rate of replanting was not ensured, the end of the Malayan rubber industry was inevitable within the next fifteen
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  • 26 11 xsss tin f l OIOI1M1 ncticwii j, M o. 1LL S at the General Hospital on Sept. 29.—Straits Times picture.
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  • 107 11 SINGAPORE, Sept. 30 WITH a deep, 40-foot gash In her port bow, the 8,200ton tanker Ternoy limped into Singapore after making the 500-mile journey from Palernbang, Indonesia yesterday. She was loaded with about 7,000 tons of petrol when she collided with another tanker
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  • 27 11 THE REV. MOTHER St. John Baptist, Superior of the Seremban Convent, who celebrated the golden anniversary* of her religious order on Oct. 1.
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  • 248 13 PENANG, Oct. 1. Behind the little church of St. Anne's, which stands on a hillside in Bukit Mertajam, a patrol of former Communist terrorists today fought a short, sharp battle with their onetime comrades The Surrendered Enemy Personnel patrol, as they are ’called, killed
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  • 240 13 ARAU. Perlis, Sept. 29. THE Raja of Perlis made a birthday wish today, replying to loyalty addresses from his subjects. The 36-year-old Ruler of the Federation’s tiniest State said: “I wish we could have a school for girls soon.” Education, he added,
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  • 564 13 Sweeping changes proposed to keep rents within reason KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 1. A SPECIAL committee of the Federal Legislative Council today recommended that rent control of business premises should end—but only after one year’s notice had been given to the public. The committee, in
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  • 109 13 PENANG Sun MEMBERS of the Penang UMNO affected by the recent “no politics*’ ban may write to Government for per mission to continue as a member or resign from UMNO The executive committee oi the Penang UMNO last night decided to leave the matter
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  • 24 13 CORPORAL JOHN ELVIN and Charlie, who captured a terrorist in the Kedah jungle. Straits Times picture. Straits Times picture.
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  • 220 13 SO HONOUR ROLL BEARS HIS NA ME SINGAPORE. Oct. 2. AIR DOG CHARLIE, who tracked down a Communist terrorist in Kedah, has won recognition for his exploit. Officially known a s R.A.F. Police Dog No. 3504, Charlie has had his name inscribed on
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  • 32 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 30. Twelve terrorists were eliminated in Selangor in September, it was officially stated today. Nine of them were credited to the 2/7 Gurkha Rifles.
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  • 178 13 Sarawak kicks out ‘dictator’ KUCHING. Sept. 30. SARAWAK’S "miniature dictator,” Liu Hon Seng, will be deported to China via Labuan and Hong Kong tomorrow'. Liu, former chairman of Chung Hua Chinese primary school, was arrested on Sept. 5. The school was closed on Aug.
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  • 138 14 MR. DONG CHTI SING with his family in their Upper Serangoon Road home He is pictured here (standing) with arms round his wife (wearing glasses) and his two daughters. Seated in the centre is his father, the Rev. Dong Bing Seng. Mr.
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  • 193 14 RURAL BOARD SA YS ‘YES’ TO AID SINGAPORE, Oct. 1. OINGAPORE life-savers are ready to begin patrolling but are handicapped by the lack of premises from which to operate at the beaches. For that reason the Singa- pore Life Guard Corps has asked both the
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  • 287 14 SINGAPORE, Oct. 2. i OEAUTIFUL 20-year-old D Seremban law stu- j dent Miss Philomena Samuel, had the last; word yesterday in the! controversy on admitting women to membership of Rotary clubs. She also had the first on Sept. 28, when she made this
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  • 113 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 30. Leong Fo and Woo Foo Lam were fined $5OO each here today for showing a "blue film.” They pleaded guilty to publicly exhibiting two reels of film which had not been authorised bv the film censor for
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  • 441 14 S’PORE HEADMASTER ACQUITTED SINGAPORE. Oct •> DONG CHUI SING, headmaster of a Singapore'kn. lish School, was acquitted at the Assizes vesterH.i on a charge of attempting to murder hi s wife p e nm. Dong Mee Seng. Dong was alleged to have attempted to kill
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  • 60 14 SINGAPORE. Oct. 2. TWO boys were drowned near Bedok, Singapore, yesterday afternoon. They were with two separate swimming parties. Ho Beng Choy, aged. 10. was drowned in the sea. The body was found on the beach off Koh Seek Lim Road. Bin Aun Joo, aged eight,
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  • 25 14 Mr. Edward J. Conlon has assumed duties as the United States information Service in Singapore. **e J> also actins Director, USlb. Malaya.
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  • 90 14 SINGAPORE Legislative Councillor Mr. Elizabeth Choy presented certificates of competency to 30 nurses and six hospital assistants at Brebner House, General Hospital, yesterday. She also presented a gold medal to Miss Ng Yew Yew, who was selected as the standing nurse ot the y
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  • 983 15 COMMITTEE REPORT KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 3. T INE ASIAN and six European Officials today warned against a too rapid Malayanisation of the public services in the Federation. 'File 15 men were members of a Committee of Inquiry appointed by the High Commission er in
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  • 133 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 4—The prospect of recruiting science and mathematics teachers from overseas to overcome the serious shortage of such teachers in this country is not bright, the Federation’s Deputy Director of Education, Mr. G. Woods, told the Straits Times today. The report
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  • 941 15 SINGAPORE, Oct. 5. A 15-MAN Committee of Inquiry, which had warned against too rapid Malayanisation of the Federation Government Service, appeared to have a vested interest in jobs, Mr. K. M. Byrne said in Singapore yesterday. A member of the staff section of
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  • 57 15 JOHORE BAHRU. Oct. 5. Half a million leaflets will be dropped from a plane on Saturday, eve of the Johore elections, to remind voters in the 16 constituencies to go to the polls. Sixteen Department of Information vans will also tour the electorates to tell
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  • 119 18  -  From Hall Romney LONDON. Oct. 5. A VETERAN of two world wars who spent three-and-a-half years on the Siam death railway has died in England. He is Col. H. H. Lilly, of the Sherwood Foresters. He was 60. When British prlsoners-of-war were sent from Singapore
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  • 57 18 SINGAPORE, Oct. 5. A Singapore taxi skidded, crashed against a shophouse pillar and ended with part of its rear in the shop at Kampong Bahru Road last night. It was drizzling at that time. A customer. Mohamed Salleh, 35, was slightly injured. The driver, the
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  • 139 18 KLUANG, Oct. 5. Terrorists were back in their favourite ambush position near here yesterday —the 16ih. mile KluangMersing Road During the morning 10 of them fired from both sides of the road at a Landrover driven by P. Down of Coronation
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  • 443 18 KULAI, Johore, Oct. 5. 35-YEAR-OLD Indian who was giving a birthday party for his six-year-old daughter was last night ordered into the bedroom of his home by terrorists and shot dead while his wife, three children and 10 guests were held at gunpoint
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  • 364 18 He’s filled in the forms: and all ne has to do is wait four months KUALA LUMPUR Ort PRIVATE BRIAN SHARPE, 22-year-old cook Vh'I .u 1 to the Special Air Service Regiment, has aW,'i ed \rmv approval to marry his 32-year-old nance, binte Taleb. lec
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  • 232 18 SINGAPORE, Oct. 6. EJECTIONS for Singapore’s new Legislative Assembly will be held late in March, or early in April next year, the acting Colonial Secretary, Mr. J. D. Higham, said yesterday. Mr. Higham told the Straits Times that the Governor, Sir John Nicoll, would make
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  • 166 18 SINGAPORE. Oct. 4. TH E Armed Services Welfare Association raised $71,000 in donations in their first ytars activities. About $25,000 waa given the Women's Voluntary vice and other Servic fare Funds, and for providin* amenities for patients in tish Military hospitals. Army leave centres
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  • 605 20 SHARE MARKET By OUR MARKET CORRESPONDENT SINGAPORE, Oct 4. THE pronounced feature of the Singapore Share Market last week was the strength of the rubber section which showed a considerable price movement stimulated by the soaring price of the commodity. It Is many months’
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  • 227 20 mHE following business done in the Singapore Share Market', was reported by one firm of brokers for the period Sept* 25 to Oct. 1: Industrials: l British Borneo Pets. 325. 6d. Consolidated Tin Smelters 285., Fraser Neave Ords. $2,01 to $2 to $2.02 cd cb. Hammers $3.05 xd,
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  • 120 20 SINGAPORE, Oct. 6. s Singapore hineoe Produce Exchange: noon prices per picui yesterday were:— Capra: quietly steady; Octobei s3l® buyers, s3l® sellers; November $32 buyers, $32 ‘i' sellers Coconut oil: steady; sss® sellers Pepper: steady ..with 712 tons buxteces reported: prices unchanged; Muntok whit* $230. Barawak s3l7®, Lam
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  • 117 20 V Glenealv Plantations Ltd. made l net profit of $25,940 (4.3<# )f and a dividend of is recommended for year ended June SO. At balancing date net liquid assets equalled $279,Q 62, or 46.5 cents per share. Cost of production was 56.7 cents on a crop averaging 591
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  • 316 20 SINGAPORE, Oct f OANS floated by the local Government and u teed by the British Government should be <n yearly in Malaya to finance rubber ren schemes, said Mr. E. G. Holiday, a leading nthe Singapore Rubber Market, yesterday n Mr. Holiday, who was cbm- meriting
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  • 710 20 SINGAPORE, Oct. 6. INDUSTRIALS V ®«y»r» fttlten Alex Briclu 1 3.00 3,10 Atl*» 1« v 12 13.3* 2.3, ts.s* B Petrol 82 6 33/B.M Trustees 0.50 TOO c °r>. Tin smelt. I*/- 19/- OO oMtei'*.'.*.. ,1%- aa Fraser wu Gammon 3.00 3.4* Gtown Dlsp 395 300 Park
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  • 183 20 K’oo.-r SINGAPORE THEM: bu deflniteiv demand to, U y UH VW ClV gj of Holiday Cutler. Bath Co Continent. a u nd ntin u«l o ju,m about their normal scale but the tLS.A. has for the first time in weeks 2KS*Jg5 taterest ln martSt* in lower grades and
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  • 138 20 TOHE following dividends A were announced hy companies operatinc in Malaya last week. LINGLI TIN TD.: A second and final dividend of 5% less 10 r < Singapore income tax, for year ended August *l, 1954, payable to shareholder register November 13 Books close Noveink r 1 sSK
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